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W. H. DILL 8: S. DOWNEY.

WINDOW SLIDE.

No. 364,224. Patented June 7, 1887.

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TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

\VILLIAM H. DILL AND SILAS DOW'NEY, OF BUFFALO, INDIANA.

WINDOW-SLIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,224, dated June 7, 1887.

Application filed November 6, 1886. Serial No. 2183303.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. DILL and SILAS DOWNEY, citizens of the United States, residents of Buffalo, in the county of White and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vindow- Slides; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part ofthis specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front view of a window with ourirnproved slides. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, showing middle strip turned to receive the sash. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view.

Our invention relates to improvements in windows; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the sash -frame, the janibs B and O of which are provided on their inner or opposing faces with the inside guardstrips, D, the parting-strips E, and the outside guard-strip, F. The guardstrips and parting-strips for thesash-franie are made of a single piece, X, of material, G, which is grooved longitudinally throughout its entire length at H I to form said guard-strips and partingstrip. The piece forming the several strips above mentioned are then cut the proper length to fitthc sash-frame, and are then out entirely through and across on the parallel miter-lines K L, near the upper and lower ends of the piece X, and the upper and lower pieces, M N, are then securely nailed to place upon the opposite inner faces of the sashframe at the upper and'lower ends of the jambs B and G. The partingstrips of each piece X are then cut away at Y, and a screwhole, Z, is made in the middle pieces, WV, of each of the pieces X at this point, and screws S are passed through said holes Z into the jainbs B and (3, said screws forming pivots upon which the middle pieces, X X, turn (N0 model) when necessary to insert or remove the window-sashes from the SiISllflfld'IlG.

The upper pieces, M M, of the sectional strips are provided with recesses a b for the cord-pulleys c d, said recesses a b being aligned with recesses in the jambs B O of the sashframe.

The janibs of the sash-frame are each provided with oval-shaped openings 6 f, through which the weights are introduced to the hollow walls of the sashframc. These openings cf are covered by the middle pieces, X X, when the latter are turned to the vertical position.

It will be observed by reference to Figs. 1 and 2 that the pivoted middle sections, D, not only have their ends cut on a miter, as described, but that these ends are also beveled transversely at ac, forming male interlocking portions adapted to tightly enter recesses formed by beveling the ends of the stationary sections at b I).

To introduce the window-sashes hi to place, the middle strips, which are longer than the window-sashes, are first turned out of theirvertieal positions into parallel inclined or parallel horizontal positions, so that the sashes may be slipped intotheir respective grooves, and when the sashes have been introduced and the cords attached to their respective weights the iniddlestrips containing the sashes are turned or pushed back to their normal or vertical positions, and the windowsashes move, one up and the other down, slightly, so that the upper edge of the upper sash will pass the miter-line K and the lower edge of the lower sash will pass the lower 1niter-line, L, and will thus lock the middle strip in the vertical positions. The sashes will then work as ordinary weighted sashes do.

\Vhen it is desirable or necessary to remove the window-sashes, they are simply run into the grooves in the middle strips, said strips being then turned out of their vertical positions, the weight-cords detached, and the sashes easily and quickly removed.

It will be seen that by cutting away the ends of the parting-strips on the pivoted portion of the guides and having the said strips and the stationary guide-sections, having their ends also beveled longitudinally and transversely, and adapted to receive the double 15 beveled ends of the said pivoted sections, sub stantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. DILL. SILAS DOWNEY. Witnesses:

O. F. NEEL, S. D. ROULS, 

